Album Express 3.2 Review

Manufacturer says:

Album Express is a great tool for creating slick, professional-looking picture albums for home, friends and the Web. Its wizard-like interface and customizable templates make it easy to present your pictures in style: you can produce a slide show, create an index, catalog your pictures, and build a fully searchable image database -- all with just a few clicks of the mouse.

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Need to get a grip on all those photographs lying around your hard disk? Organise them! Album Express comes with features that the more advanced users can exploit to show off their creativity. You can easily add titles or captions, use a background, add soundtracks, create slideshows, and publish your neatly sorted photographs as a web page (some free icons also provided). Make full use of the included templates and backgrounds to get that professional look. You can even create your own templates and a complete search-able database of your pictures.

For the first time user it couldn't be simpler. You just choose a template from the samples included, and choose your pictures. That's it. The easy to use wizard type interface will have you up and running in no time at all. A completely impressive package.

The fact that they have a free download doesn't hurt at all. You get a whole 30 days to decide whether you like it enough to pay the very affordable price. The only downside we could find was that the web pages you create - complete with the thumbnails - will be frames based - but hey, even Microsoft uses frames on their site sometimes :-)

There are more advanced photo album programs around, and more expensive ones, but for ease of use and value for money Album Express is hard to beat. Give it a shot.

Runs with all major version of MS Windows